[ASM scene] New compo rules

[Jouko Karhula]

Hello,

/me votes BIG TIME for any kind of tracked music visibility for Assembly :)

I think that in BP the competitions were just great, with those categories:
http://breakpoint.untergrund.net/compos_music.php

It gave something for anybody:
- Streaming music compo, so virtually anything big size stuff could be there
(tracked, free style, whatever...)
- Cool Oldschool compo, with those normal oldschool rules (well size limit
was 32k for exe)
- Newschool compo with 32k limit, so most tracked/softsynth/etc stuff could
be here
(having 4k limit would definitely drop off for example .it or .xm entries,
so at least this 32k or
even 64k would allow some creativity there as well).

And stereo sound this time... finally!!! For example Amiga tunes having
those
channels mixed into mono did sound really horrible in last years at Assembly
:)

  - Jouko "DJ Joge" Karhula

On 15/04/2008, Jussi Laakkonen <jussi.laakkonen at assembly.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Am I the only one who doesn't see this as a welcome change?
>
>   I'll let our Compocrew chime in on the details, but from my
> perspective having more categories does not correlate with better
> competitions, higher quality entries or with higher voter interest. I
> think the correlation is actually negative.
>
>   Gloom kindly did some analysis in the thread were we discussed music
> compos after ASMS07, and it was pretty clear that almost nobody
> including demosceners on this list, bothered to vote in the two music
> compos. Improving the quality of the compo thru combining the
> artificially divided categories as well as the introducing a new sound
> system should improve this. We are also looking to other improvements in
> the music compo, but more about that later.
>
>   The Drawn themed graphics has been a bit of hit and miss. The themes
> often have done nothing for the artists, who have had to adapt slightly
> their already work in progress art to the themes. Sometimes it has been
> obvious that no attention has been paid to the themes. The rule has thus
> been quite artificial. The technical limitations in the Drawn graphics
> were also out of touch with the realities of making "computer graphics"
> today.
>
>   I've been thinking about multichannel, and perhaps the right place
> would be to add it to oldskool music compo but with 4k limit.
> Multichannel in the days of old was simply yet-another-streaming music
> compo with huge samples being used. Perhaps with a size limitation it
> could be re-introduced as a platform for oldskool music.
>
> Perhaps something similar (executable graphics in 4k?) could be added
> as a platform for oldskool graphics.
>
>   Comments are very welcome as these are very early thoughts.
>
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